Forum Canada–Italia sull’IA

CCIC : Collegare Canada e Italia – Connettere, Collaborare, Crescere.

Novembre 17, 2021 8:00 am — 

Novembre 19, 2021 12:30 pm

Artificial Intelligence and the challenge of Sustainability

International online forum, November 18-19, 2021

The 3rd International Forum will be dedicated to the role of artificial intelligence and sustainable development as accelerators for innovation and the green transition, particularly in the essential sectors of health, energy, mobility and circular economy.

On November 18 and 19, the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada will bring together world-class speakers and panelists to reflect on these major themes.

Emilia Romagna, Lombardy and Piemonte are the featured Italian regions of the 2021 edition.

 

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

NOV 18th

8:15 – 10:15 (EDT) / 14:15 – 16:15 (CET)

10:30 – 12:30 (EDT) / 16:30 – 18:30 (CET)

NOV 19th

8:15 – 10:15 (EDT) / 14:15 – 16:15 (CET)

10h:30 – 12:30 (EDT) / 16:30 – 18:30 (CET)

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WHO IS THE AI FORUM FOR?

This annual event is a must for Italian and Canadian representatives of AI, stakeholders and experts from universities, research centers, start-ups, SMEs and large companies.

It is an opportunity to discuss the development and collaboration opportunities between the two countries and to encourage innovation.

 

ITALY

Canada

Novembre 17, 2021
Novembre 18, 2021
8:15 – 10:15 (EDT) / 14:15 – 16:15 (CET)Opening of conference

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Master of Ceremonies: Enrico Cremonese, IVADO LABS

OPENING REMARKS 

  • Carmine D’Argenio – Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada
  • Sylvie Barcelo – Deputy Minister, Ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie
  • Andrea Ferrari – Italian Ambassador in Canada (video)
  • Edith St-Hilaire – Embassy of Canada in Italy
  • Stefano Bonaccini – President, Emilia-Romagna Region
  • Fabrizio Ricca – Regional Minister for Internationalization, Piemonte Region
10:30 – 12:30 (EDT) / 16:30 – 18:30 (CET)Workshop Sustainable Mobility

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Moderator: Aymeric Dussart, Aéroport de Montréal

Part 1 – Autonomous and connected vehicles, open data 

  • Alessia Zarzani – Ville de Montréal
  • Marko Bertogna – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
  • Andrea Sanguedolce – FEV Italia
  • Davide Sangiorgi – Fasternet
  • Mauro Nesti – Qmap
  • François Rainville – EFFENCO

Part 2 – Use of AI for simulation and digital twins

  • Ruben Marco Ganzaroli – Società Autostrade per l’Italia
  • Gianpiero Mastinu – Politecnico di Milano
  • Maxime Desjardins-Goulet – BRP

Rapporteur: Désirée Tremblay – INNOVÉE/DANA TM4

10:30 – 12:30 (EDT) / 16:30 – 18:30 (CET)Workshop Sustainable Energy and Circular Economy

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Moderator: Elizabeth Shirt, GLOBE Series

Technological innovations and new experiments serving the energy, economic and ecological transition

 

Part 1: Context, criticality of innovation and cooperation platforms

  • Ilaria Re – Lombardy Green Chemistry Association
  • Mathieu Johnson – Hydro-Québec
  • Massimo Celino – ENEA, Digitalization for Energy
  • Mark Kozdras – Natural Resources Canada, Canmet MATERIALS laboratory

Part 2 : The state of the art and the gap to be filled 

  • Laura Cutaia – ENEA Circular Economy
  • Marco De Paolis – SNAM 
  • Allegra De Filippo – DISI Institute, University of Bologna
  • Giacomo Copani – Associazione Fabbrica Intelligente Lombardy (AFIL)
  • Florent Bouguin – Groupe Optel
  • Marie Lapointe – Hydrogène Québec
  • Pierre Taillefer – BDO

Part 3 : Case Studies

  • Annibale Guariglia – Geocart
  • Davide Montanari – Ammagamma
  • Francesco Gallo – Itelyum Regeneration
  • Marco Bernardi – Cap Holding Spa
  • Sam Ramadori – BrainBox AI

Rapporteur: Pietro Leo – IBM Italia

Novembre 19, 2021
8:15 – 10:15 (EDT) / 14:15 – 16:15 (CET)Workshop Digital Health

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Moderator: Dr. Yves Joanette, Digital Health Consortium

The responsible development of AI in digital health

  • Mona Magalhaes – St-Mary’s Research Center
  • Franco Molteni – Ospedale Valduce/Villa Beretta
  • Lorenzo Chiari – University of Bologna
  • Jacopo Secco – Omnidermal
  • Manuel Roveri – Politecnico di Milano
  • Stefano Cattorini – BI-REX
  • Sara Ahmed PH.D., PT – CRIR, RI MUHC, McGill Faculty of Medicine 
  • Stéphane Guay – Centre Axel
  • Nicolas Beaudet – Omnimed
  • Jonathan Abitbol – Invent_T

Rapporteur: Nathalie Ouimet – Montréal InVivo

10:30 – 12:30 (EDT) / 16:30 – 18:30 (CET)Closing conference

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Master of Ceremonies: Enrico Cremonese, IVADO LABS

Wrap up; lessons learned and cooperation pathways

Key messages from the Thematic Workshops

  • Désirée Tremblay – INNOVÉE
  • Pietro Leo – IBM Italia
  • Nathalie Ouimet – Montréal InVivo

Vision and future of AI; intro of keywords

  • Maurizio Sobrero – Bologna Business School

Panel : Emerging themes : Ethics and protection of data (cybersecurity)

Moderator: Sara Moraca, Journalist

PANELISTS

  • Edmondo Grassi – San Raffaele University / Educazione Intelligenza Artificiale Laboratory (EUIA) (Ethics in AI)
  • Michele Colajanni – University of Bologna
  • Sanzio Bassini – IFAB /Cineca
  • Marcel Labelle – Cybereco
  • Alexandre Lagarde – Montréal International
  • Guido Boella – University of Turin

 

CLOSING REMARKS 

  • Ruben Sacerdoti – Emilia-Romagna Region
  • Daniel Silverman – Investissement Québec International
  • Marianna Simeone – Déléguée du Québec à Rome 
  • Silvia Costantini  – Consul General of Italy in Montreal
  • Danielle Virone – Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada

 

Canadian Speakers

Ambassador of Canada to Italy / 
Vice-President, Foreign Investment / 
Montréal International
Co-founder and General Partner / 
Linearis
Professor / 
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Science for Real-Time Decision-Making
Project Leader / 
Boston Consulting Group
Chief Technology Strategist / 
RHEA Group
Chair of the Board and President / 
Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada
Partner / 
Teralys Capital
Director General of Partnerships and Risk Mitigation / 
Canadian Center for Cybersecurity
Vice-President, Foreign Direct Investment / 
Investissement Québec International
Associate Professor of Management, Distinguished Professorship in Entrepreneurship and Family Business / 
Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business in Montreal
President and Chief Executive Officer / 
Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM)
President and Chief Executive Officer / 
Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM)
Principal Investigator / 
Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer
Minister Counsellor and Senior Trade Commissioner / 
Embassy of Canada in Italy
Ambassador of Canada to Italy, Albania, Malta, San Marino / 
Embassy of Canada to Italy
Managing Director / 
GLOBE Series
Vice President and Executive / 
Ivado Labs
Partner and National Leader - Technology Advisory Services / 
BDO Canada
Minister / 
Ministère de la Cybersécurité et du Numérique
Assistant Deputy Minister for Bilateral Relations / 
Québec Department of International Relations
CEO / 
TwelveDot Inc.
Director, Strategic Studies / 
Finance Montréal
President / 
Leonardo Canada
Director of Research and Development / 
Effenco
Executive Manager / 
CRIM – Computer Research Institute of Montréal
Chief Executive Officer / 
Montréal InVivo
President & COO / 
Leddartech
President / 
Investissement Québec International
Executive Director / 
International Center of Expertise of Montreal for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Co-Founder & Managing Partner  / 
Holt Accelerator
Director of Partnerships / 
Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
Vice-présidence et Chef de la Sécurité de l'information / 
Desjardins
CEO / 
InMind Technology
Conseiller aux innovations technosociales / 
Inven_T
Dean of Research / 
Université du Québec en Outaouais
National Manager Artificial Intelligence / 
Mitacs
SVP Digital Channels, Retail & Commercial Strategy / 
National Bank of Canada
Senior Director Fintech, Innovation and Derivatives  / 
Autorité des marchés financiers
Ministère de la Cybersécurité et du Numérique
Director of Professional Services in the Medical and University Affairs Division / 
CHUM
Chief AI Scientist / 
National Bank of Canada
Associé principal et directeur exécutif / 
Boston Consulting Group
President & General Manager / 
Cybereco
Vice-President / 
Scotia Bank
Quebec Delegate to Italy / 
Ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie
Executive Director / 
Hydrogène Québec
Journaliste, conférencière et animatrice / 
Director, Business & Strategic Initiatives / 
Montreal InVivo
Assistant Director, Living Lab / 
Institut TransMedTech
Assistant Director, Living Lab / 
Institut TransMedTech
Regional President / 
BMO Private Wealth
Head of Cybersecurity / 
Hydro-Québec
Professional engineer and emeritus scientist / 
Natural Resources Canada, CanmetMATERIALS laboratory
General Manager / 
MT Lab
Senior Director – Corporate Strategy, Partnerships and Development / 
Hydro-Québec
Vice President, FinTech Development and Corporate Affairs / 
Finance Montreal
Advanced Technologies Senior Project Manager / 
Centre de Technologies Avancées BRP-Université de Sherbrooke
Vice President, Operations / 
Aéro Montréal
Mynd Therapeutics / 
President and Chief Executive Officer / 
MGT
CEO / 
AIoT Canada
Research program manager / 
St-Mary's Research Center
Coordinator, Marketing and Industry 4.0 / 
Quebec Ministry of the Economy and Innovation
Dean / 
Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University
Vice-President / 
Montréal InVivo
CEO, Co-Founder / 
Zilia Health
Managing Director / 
Circular Economy Leadership Canada
Founder / 
Tourism AI Network
Deputy Minister / 
Ministère de la Cybersécurité et du Numérique
National Lead Partner / 
BDO Canada Risk Advisory Services
Chief of Staff – Information Management Group / 
Canadian Armed Forces
President and CEO / 
Sous-Traitance Industrielle Québec (STIQ)
Director, Cyber Threat Management & Response / 
BDO Canada
Managing Director, Transportation & Logistics / 
PwC Canada
Head / 
Canadian Center for Cybersecurity
Vice President, Strategy, Human Resources & Digitalization / 
Montreal Port Authority
Vice – President of Scientific Affaires / 
Génome Québec
Analyst, Business Intelligence and Innovation / 
Montreal Port Authority
Université du Québec en Outaouais
Co-Director / 
Centre Axel
Assistant Deputy Minister, Information Security and Cybersecurity  / 
Ministère de la Cybersécurité et du Numérique
Suzanne Benoit / 
President
Sous ministre / 
Ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie
Associate Professor and Associate Director of Research / 
Ingram School of Nursing (ISoN), McGill University
Senior Investment Advisor – Innovation / 
Fonds de solidarité FTQ
Executive Director for CITF and Director and Associate Dean of the School of Population and Global Health in the McGill Faculty of Medicine / 
CEO / 
Worximity Technology
Deputy Vice-Principal Research and Director / 
Consortium de Santé Numérique
Directrice, Investissements directs étrangers, Europe  / 
Investissement Québec

Italian Speakers

Undersecretary with responsibility for Relations with International Delegations / 
Lombardy Region
Managing Director / 
Advice Pharma Group
Post-doc researcher / 
DISI Institute, University of Bologna
General Manager / 
Institute for Transport and Logistics Foundation
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry / 
University of Bologna
Head of the Space, Innovation and Start-Up Office  / 
Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale
Researcher / 
National Research Council (CNR)
Cybersecurity Protection for Defense and Critical Infrastructures / 
Leonardo
Space Economy Advisor / 
Vice President / 
Big Data Association
President / 
Italian Trade Agency
Ambassador of Italy in Canada / 
Head of Analytic Translation Team / 
Ammagamma
Innovation manager and specialist in business development / 
Fasternet s.r.l.
Head of Cybersecurity / 
Exprivia
Software Manager  / 
Sacmi
Associate Professor / 
UNIMORE
Research Scientist / 
Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli
Offering Director / 
Cybertech Engineering Group
Chief Digital Officer  / 
Bonfiglioli Riduttori SPA
Director of the Laboratory of Biological Structure Mechanics (LABS) / 
IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi
Regional Minister for Internazionalization  / 
Piemonte Region
Vice President / 
Lombardy Region
Operation Director, R&D and Digital Transformation Manager / 
Itelyum Regeneration
Co-founder and VP of Global Sales / 
Axyon AI
Cluster Manager / 
Associazione Fabbrica Intelligente Lombardy (AFIL)
Cluster Manager / 
AFIL, Advanced Manufacturing Cluster of the Lombardy Region
Senior Vice President Marketing, Business Development and Sales Strategy - Cyber Division / 
Leonardo
General Director / 
Lepida SpA
Full professor of Vehicle System Engineering / 
Politecnico di Milano
Chief Operating Officer at Energy Way / 
President of ART-ER
Lombardy Regional Minister for Economic Development / 
Head of Project Management / 
Lombardy Green Chemistry Association
Head of Certification Division / 
Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale
Senior Project Mmanager of Skills and Territories for Innovation Unit / 
ART-ER
Researcher / 
ENEA
Head of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology / 
IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi
Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics and Information / 
Politecnico di Milano
Manager of the Research, Innovation and Industrialization Office / 
Cap Holding
Hydrogen Valley Business Development / 
SNAM
Responsible of Technology Unit / 
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
Professor / 
Department of Aerospace Science and Technology at the Politecnico di Milano
International Projects Manager / 
InfoCamere
Founder and CEO - GHEPI srl / 
Chair - Clust-ER Mech
Full Professor of Global Health / 
University of Milan
Full Professor and leader of the HiPeRT Lab / 
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Co-founder and CEO / 
CellPly
Staff Scientist / 
ENEA, Digitalization for Energy
Researcher at ICAR-CNR, Founder at Altilia / 
Altilia; ICAR-CNR
Founding Partner and Managing Director / 
ENERSEM
Full Professor / 
University of Bologna & Bologna Business School
Business Developer and Solutions Engineer / 
Qmap
Full Professor / 
University of Bologna
Managing Director / 
FEV Italia Srl
Full Professor of cybersecurity at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering / 
University of Bologna
CEO / 
SCAI Lab Srl
General Directorate of Industry, Trade and Tourism  / 
Emilia Romagna Regional Government
Associate Professor / 
Polytechnic University of Milan
Regional Minister for Education, University, Research and Digital Agenda / 
Emilia-Romagna Region
Director for Skill and Competence Development / 
Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale
Partner, Global Railways & Roads Leader / 
PwC
Head Delegate / 
Regional Minister from Emilia-Romagna, Responsible for European Policies for Development, Universities and Research
Executive Architect & CTO, IBM Italy Chief Scientist and Research Strategist / 
IBM Academy of Technology Leadership
Director / 
Sustainable Development Foundation
Full Professor and Director / 
Associazione Big Data; UNIMORE; CINI
Full Professor / Director of AIRI / 
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia / AIRI
Director General / 
Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale
Chief Data Officer / 
Autostrade per l’Italia
Director of the Regional Department for Business Internationalization and FDI Attraction / 
Region Emilia Romagna
Ambassador / 
Embassy of Italy in Canada
Director Supercomputing Application and Innovation Department / 
CINECA e Associazione Big Data
Director Supercomputing Applications and Innovation Department / 
CINECA
Director of the Supercomputing Applications and Innovation Department / 
CINECA / IFAB
Vice President / 
Assolombarda Life Sciences
Consul General of Italy in Montreal / 
Consulat Général d'Italie à Montréal
Consul General of Italy in Montreal / 
President / 
Emilia Romagna Region
General Director / 
BI-REX, Industry 4.0 Competence Center
General Director / 
BI-REX
Senior Strategic Infrastructure Partnership Manager / 
Yoox Net-a-Porter Group (YNAP)
Head of Cyber Security (CISO) / 
ENEL

Collaborators

Business Opportunities

Press

  • Intelligenza artificiale, verso un accordo bilaterale di collaborazione tra Emilia-Romagna e Québec per applicazioni concrete nei settori della salute, della mobilità e dello sviluppo sostenibile

    Un accordo di collaborazione bilaterale tra l’Emilia-Romagna e il Québec, con anche la definizione delle linee di finanziamento congiunte per investire nell’alta formazione e nella ricerca pubblico-privato nel campo dell’Intelligenza artificiale. Più in dettaglio, una piattoforma collaborativa per cofinanziare e condividere progetti su digitale e nuove tecnologie con applicazioni concrete nei settori della salute, della mobilità e dello sviluppo sostenibile. E l’allargamento, nell’ambito della relazione col Canada, a Lombardia e Piemonte e a partner della Regione Emilia-Romagna in Europa come Nouvelle Aquitaine, Catalogna e Assia. Intesa, alla quale si sta lavorando, anticipata dal presidente della Regione Emilia-Romagna, Stefano Bonaccini, nell’aprire i lavori della terza edizione, in modalità virtuale, del ‘Canada-Italy Business Forum on Artificial Intelligence’.

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  • Ict: Forum Italia-Canada su Intelligenza artificiale, facilitazione per sviluppo sostenibile

    Tutto pronto per il terzo appuntamento del Forum Italia-Canada che quest’anno, nelle giornate di giovedì 18 e venerdì 19 novembre, vedrà importanti rappresentanti dei due paesi- unitamente a esponenti del mondo dell’Università, della Ricerca e delle Imprese – confrontarsi sul ruolo dell’intelligenza artificiale quale strumento di facilitazione per un necessario sviluppo sostenibile.

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Videos

  • Opening Plenary : Vision, Policies and Perspectives on AI & SustainabilityOpening Plenary : Vision, Policies and Perspectives on AI & Sustainability
  • Roundtable on Sustainable MobilityRoundtable on Sustainable Mobility
  • Roundtable on Sustainable Energy and Circular EconomyRoundtable on Sustainable Energy and Circular Economy
  • Roundtable on Digital HealthRoundtable on Digital Health
  • Closing Plenary : Emerging Themes : Ethics and Protection of DataClosing Plenary : Emerging Themes : Ethics and Protection of Data
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